List of Famous people born in New York, United States of America

Charles Newirth is an American film producer.

Neil Meron is an American film producer known for producing the 2002 film Chicago and the 2007 film Hairspray. With partner Craig Zadan he ran the production company Storyline Entertainment until Zadan's death in 2018. Meron continues to run the company.

Richard John Terrile is a Voyager scientist who discovered several moons of Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. He works for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Barbara Foley, Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, focuses her research and teaching on U.S. literary radicalism, African American literature, and Marxist criticism. The author of six books and over seventy scholarly articles, review essays, and book chapters, she has published on literary theory, academic politics, US proletarian literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and the writers Ralph Ellison and Jean Toomer. Throughout her career, her work has emphasized the centrality of antiracism and Marxist class analysis to both literary study and social movements.

Kirk Baily is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Kevin "Ug" Lee in the Nickelodeon sitcom, Salute Your Shorts. He is an accomplished voice actor who has appeared in anime and video games. He also does ADR looping for film and television.

Lawrence Monoson is a retired American film and television actor.

Benito Romano was the first Puerto Rican to hold the United States Attorney's post in New York on an interim basis.

Beth Jane Porter is an American stage, film and television actress and writer, who has worked in Britain for most of her career. She became a British citizen in 2014.

Jim Metzler is an American actor, best known for guest-appearances on popular TV series. In 1983, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his supporting role in the 1982 film Tex.